somebody suggested it during my administration, nobody would take it even seriously. saudi arabia has really gone over to china. china is protecting them now. we have lost saudi arabia. biden goes over and does a fist bump with the king. he is the king. the future king of saudi arabia. do you know what a fist bump is don't touch my hands because they are dirty. so he tells him don't touch my hands because your hands are dirty. let's do a fist bump and he does a fist bump. do you know how insulted they were by that? look. we have people that are stupid running our country. from this is the most dangerous time in the history, in my opinion in the history of our country. in the history of the world. because of the power of weaponry. it's the most -- this is the most unbelievably dangerous time because of nuclear weapons and other things, by the way. we have incompetent people running our country in the most dangerous time. now, little articles come out. little articles just like...

for the juneteenth holiday. mr. president thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> bret: i have asked the same question to all candidates i have interviewed this year and that is this. what do you think is the most important issue facing the country right now? >> so many so important but we have to straighten out the economy. we are going to do that through inflation. we have to straighten out the border where we have millions of people pouring in. and do that quickly. i had the safest border in the hills industry of our country and most unsafe, i think, in the world. never been anything like it. we have to strengthen up our military, giving 85 billion, billion dollars to afghanistan didn't exactly help. we have to strengthen up our military and get the woke out of our military. and basically respect all over the world. we don't have it anymore. we had tremendous respect three years ago. we don't have respect anymore. they don't listen to us. they don't care about us. they just don't do...

to do that because he wasn't president. nor did mike pence, by the way, have the right to do that because he wasn't president. >> bret: i'm not going to belabor this. i want to get to the specifics. >> other presidents when they leave they take the papers. they have thousands and thousands. obama had it. nixon had it. carter had it. bushes had it. >> bret: there are arguments these are super sensitive documents. >> i'm sure you will see super sensitive that biden has. biden has far more than anybody has ever kept. >> bret: he turned them over when asked. >> he still hasn't given 1850 boxes that's stored at the university of delaware. in fact, they are fighting them in court and they are fighting them. >> bret: but he opened up for them to look at? >> excuse me, the boxes from chinatown, he didn't turn them over. he sent them up to his lawyer in boston to look at before they head landed them over. >> bret: their special counsel is look at that and we will see what comes out of it. >>...

but, that legal battle aside, i want to ask you a couple of specifics. why did you have this very sensitive national security defense documents like the the r plans for a strike on iran. >> like every other president i take things out. in my case i took it out pretty much in a hurry. people packed it up and left. i had clothing in there i had all sorts of personal items in there much, much stuff. by the way, when bill barr who is a coward. bill barr was a coward. bill barr didn't do what he was supposed to do. i fired him and he has great hatred and that's okay some people do. some people love me very much.

classified information. [cheers] no one will be above the law. >> we also need to fight this battle by collecting intelligence and then protecting, protecting our classified secrets. we can't have someone in the oval office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified. >> bret: your vice president mike pence says he is, quote, deeply troubled by what's in the indictment and he says, quote: of the indictment contains serious charges and i cannot defend what's alleged. >> mike pence had documents that were classified. >> bret: and he turned them over. >> no, he didn't turn them over. he got caught. his lawyers found some documents and then he turned them over. why did he have them? he shouldn't be saying that because he had classified documents. and immediately they said oh, that's okay. and i suppose it's going to be okay with biden, too, even though he has them in chinatown? even though he has them in

day that the only way nara could ever get this stuff, this back would be please, please, please could we have it back? >> bret: and they asked for that. they did ask for it? >> no. i gave them some. >> bret: gave them documents back and then they said they went to doj to subpoena you. >> which they have never done before. >> bret: why not just hand them over then? >> because i had boxes i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over to nara yet. and i was very busy. as you have sort of seen. let. >> bret: yeah, according to the indictment you tell this aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you had fully complied with the subpoenaed when you hadn't. >> but i send over take boxes out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes, there were many things. iran, much more. >> war documents with iran. >> not that i know of. everything was declassified. and biden...

disapproves of biden but wasn't with you in 2020 and so far is a hard no for you in 2024. but what do you say to that. >> not looking at the right polls. >> bret: what do you say to the female independent suburban voter to he will win her back. >> first of all i won in 2020 by a lot. let's get that straight. i won in 2020. >> bret: you know that's not what the votes show. >> look at everything you want to look at. take a look at truth to vote. where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes or. >> bret: mr. president it's all been looked into. >> go to recent fbi twitter. the 51 agents. all corrupt stuff,. >> bret: understand about hunter biden that's fair things. you laos the 2020 election. >> bret, you take a look at all of the stuffed ballots, take a look at all of the things, including things like the 51 intelligence agents. >> bret: there were recounts in all of the swing states there was not significant widespread fraud. >> trying to get recounts, real recounts. >>...

best trade deals. usmca canada and mexico. replaced nafta. everybody even said you even said be impossible to end it. i got terminated by congress, actually, and got usmca. it's so good. >> bret: i don't think i ever said that by the way. >> it's a long time ago. mexico and canada. it's so good they want to renegotiate the deal. i hope they don't do that i hope we don't agree to that best trade deal with china. $50 billion a year where they have to buy from us. i got $28 billion from china to give to our farmers because our farmers were treated badly. >> bret: would you keep the china tariffs on? >> i would keep the china tariffs on. >> >> bret: or take them off. >> keep them on, tremendously. it's a tremendous power thing. china was dying over the tariffs. i took in hundreds of millions of dollars from china. no other president has ever taken ten cents. i watched gordon chang the other night say the only one that was tough on china, so tough that frankly he couldn't believe it was...

have done and overturned in the u.s. supreme court. these are thugs. >> bret: the suggestion was that you wanted this as evidence that the military, the chairman of the joint chiefs general milley had preemptively sent you plans for a possible attack on iran and that you didn't order that to happen. that's the suggestion. >> i never ordered that to happen, no. >> bret: that's why you wanted

somehow, right? they fought me very hard in 2016 very much the way they are fighting me now very, very hard. and i won and they became very nice. but i will tell you that something happens when people leave they can like me very much. i have this woman alyssa farah, she said the greatest things long after she left he is the greatest president we have ever had. unbelievable. then "the view" offered her a contract. but, obviously, only if she changed her views and all of the sudden she can say negative things. money gets offered to people and some people change. >> bret: there are people on that list not taking money. >> most important part they are, barr did a book. barr was a coward. the name -- people that you named for every person you named i can name 20 people that loved the administration. and maybe more importantly the voters loved the administration. the voters are dying to get back to it, bret. the voters are tired of being laughed at all over the world. we are run by a...

>> you can imagine. >> bret: i don't want to dwell on it. according to the indictment you were here at bedminster july 21st, 2021, after you were no longer president and you were recorded saying that you had a document detailing a plan attack on another country prepared for the u.s. military for you when you were president, the iran attack plan? do you remember that? >> ready? it wasn't a document. i had lots of paper. i had copies of newspaper articles. i had copies of magazines. >> bret: i know this is specifically a quote. you are quoted on the recording saying the document was secret adding that he. now i can't. this is still secret. highly confidential. and the indictment cites the recording and the testimony from people in the room saying you showed it to people there that day. you say on tape. >> just the opposite. >> bret: that you can't declassify it then why have it? >> why i said i couldn't declassify it now because i wasn't president. i never made any bones...